Improvement in combined lap-table, work-box, and work-stand



M. BYRKIT. Combined Lap-Table, Work-Box, and Work-Stand.

No. 217,679. Patented July 22,1879.

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MARTHA BYRKIT, OF KNIGHTSTOWN, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED LAP-TABLE, WORK-BOX, AND WORK-STAND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 217,679, dated July 22,1879 application filed November 30, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IlIARTHA BYRKIT, of Knightstown, in the county ofHenry and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful CombinedLap-Table, fork-Box, and \Vork-Stand, of which the following is adescription, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a device that can be used as alap-table, a workbox, or a work-stand.

My invention consists of the new construction, arrangement, andcombination of parts, as will be fully described and set forth.

In the accompanyin drawings in which like letters of reference in thedifferent figures indicate like parts, Figure 1 represents a perspectiveview of my improved table, with the work-box folded up. Fig. 2represents the same, with the cover of the work-box removed and insertedin a slot at the end of the table, thus forming a lap-table. Fig. 3represents the work-box folded down, making the top of the table larger.

A represents any ordinary table, which is provided with drawers H at oneend, and a slot (not shown) in the other end, to receive the cover E ofthe work-box, that forms alaptable. The work-box is composed of thestationary piece or bottom (3, which is attached to the table-top B,having side folding wings, D D, attached thereto by hinges, withextension folding side wings, D D, hinged to the ends of the side wings,D, and a central end wing, J, hinged to one end of the stationary bottom0, as shown in Fig. 3.

The side, extension, and end wings, D D J, when folded up form a box ontop of the table, similar to that shown in Fig. 2.

The cover E of the work-box is provided with a hinged leaf, F, thatforms one end of the work-box when placed over it, as shown in Fig. 1.

When it is desired to use the table as a laptable the cover E F isremoved from the workbox and inserted in a slot or receptacle form ed inone end of the table-frame, as shown in Fig. 2, leaving the work-box incondition to hold the work contained therein.

Should a larger surface of the table-top be required, then the sides DD, extension side wings, D D, and end wing, J, are folded down, as shownin Fig. 3.

\Vhen the cover E F is on the work-box, and it is desired to place anyarticle therein or remove anything therefrom, the end F is raised up.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

In a combined lap-table, work-box, and workstand, the table A, havingone end provided with a slot or opening to receive the re1novable coverE F, the folding top consisting of the stationary part 0, having sid'ewings, D D, and end wing, J, hinged thereto, with side flaps, D D,hinged to the ends of the side wings, D D, in the manner shown, wherebya receptacle or box is formed above the table when the parts are foldedup and the removable top placed thereon, the work-table formed when theparts are folded down, and a laptable formed when the removable cover isinserted in the slot at the end of the table, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two snbseribin g witnesses.

MARTHA BYRKIT.

Vitnesses:

E. O. FRINK, S. E. CARPENTER. a

